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Closest thing to a defiant Senator Borah in Japan's muzzled Diet has been a slim, sharp-faced, sad-eyed little man named Takao Saito. Ever since he returned to Japan from Yale ('04), he has championed lost causes. He looks at once so meek and so dignified that his fellow Dietarians call him Lord Mouse. Last month Lord Mouse startled Japan by standing up in the Diet and roaring like a lion: When will this war end? What does all this high-sounding talk about a New Order mean? For two hours he flayed the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Minseito's Mouse | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...William Edgar Borah. 5. Henrik Shipstead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Current affairs Test | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Sirs: In reference to your article on William E. Borah, may I commend you on your splendid tribute to a splendid American? WILLIAM H. WEBSTER Webster Groves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Sirs: . . . Thank you for the story on Borah of Idaho. J. W. MASON Hartford, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Compared with such Hun-hating best-sellers as James M. Beck's The Evidence in the Case, such trench life thrillers as Arthur Guy Empey's Over the Top, Brailsford's book was a commercial fizzle. But one of its readers was Woodrow Wilson (Senator Borah sent him a copy), who drew heavily on it for his 14 Points. Two years later the League's handful of supporters had grown to millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rights and Hopes | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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